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Jack o’Lantern Cookies

Keepsake Cookies

Prep time:

10 minutes, plus chilling

Bake time:

10 to 12 minutes

“We always had a lot of fun decorating these ghoulish cookies with different colored icings and decorative candies.”

We always had a lot of fun decorating these ghoulish cookies with different colored icings and decorative candies.

Ingredients

Serves 24

1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
1 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
1 large egg yolk
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon pumpkin-pie spice
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 tube (4.25 ounces) orange icing

Directions

1
Cream the butter and brown sugar in a medium bowl with an electric mixer on low until smooth; stir in the egg yolk. Mix the flour, pumpkin-pie spice and baking soda in a large bowl. Stir in the butter mixture. Mix until the dough is firm and smooth. Form the dough into a disk; wrap in plastic wrap and chill for 20 minutes.
2
Preheat the oven to 375F. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper or leave ungreased.
3
Roll the dough to a 1/4-inch thickness on a lightly floured surface. Cut out cookies with a 3 1/2-inch round cookie cutter and place 2 inches apart on prepared baking sheets. Bake until lightly browned around the edges, 10 to 12 minutes. Remove from oven and transfer cookies to wire racks; cool completely.
4
Create faces on pumpkin cookies using the orange icing.

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Grandma's Secret Tip

Grandma's Secret Tip

Grandma sometimes used the top of a clean wide-mouth glass jar to cut out the dough rounds for these cookies.